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Zett's O Scale Train Layout: March 2011
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Welcome to Zett's O scale 3 rail EJ&E layout page. This page will be updated with layout construction techniques, photographs, product reviews, and history of Joliet and the Elgin Joliet and Eastern Railway. Wednesday, March 30, 2011. Here is a picture taken in the summer of 1928, showing the Elgin Joliet and Eastern Railway 755 2-8-2 Mikado. According the the www.ejearchive.com. This locomotive was built by Alco Brooks in 1923. Thursday, March 24, 2011. Union Station Project - Part 1. After one trip to ...
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Zett's O Scale Train Layout: April 2012
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Welcome to Zett's O scale 3 rail EJ&E layout page. This page will be updated with layout construction techniques, photographs, product reviews, and history of Joliet and the Elgin Joliet and Eastern Railway. Thursday, April 5, 2012. Union Station Project - Part 6. Can I get this thing finished before I get to part 10? So what are the negatives? This final shot is a view of the staircase looking up towards the platform. I still have to scribe the vertical lines into the walls on each side of the steps.
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Zett's O Scale Train Layout: January 2012
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Welcome to Zett's O scale 3 rail EJ&E layout page. This page will be updated with layout construction techniques, photographs, product reviews, and history of Joliet and the Elgin Joliet and Eastern Railway. Tuesday, January 31, 2012. Employee's Picnic 1928 - Part 2. My guess is that these picture were taken prior to 1928. It appears that the crowd is gathering around a Northern Pacific box car. I do not know what the track arrangement was like at this area during that time. Today the tracks ...The table...
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Zett's O Scale Train Layout: February 2012
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Welcome to Zett's O scale 3 rail EJ&E layout page. This page will be updated with layout construction techniques, photographs, product reviews, and history of Joliet and the Elgin Joliet and Eastern Railway. Thursday, February 23, 2012. Room Construction - Part 3. Room construction is for the most part complete! This is a shot taken from the chair shown in the previous photograph. The chair you see is 23' away. This will be a long straight run to the other side of the layout, passing over the Des...This ...
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Zett's O Scale Train Layout: November 2011
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Welcome to Zett's O scale 3 rail EJ&E layout page. This page will be updated with layout construction techniques, photographs, product reviews, and history of Joliet and the Elgin Joliet and Eastern Railway. Wednesday, November 30, 2011. The Rock Island line at Joliet's Union Station. It is always a treat coming across photographs like this. Special thanks to Lance Wales who gave me permission to repost photographs which are in his collection, original photos by Bruce MacDonald. You can view Lanc...Unlik...
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Zett's O Scale Train Layout: October 2011
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Welcome to Zett's O scale 3 rail EJ&E layout page. This page will be updated with layout construction techniques, photographs, product reviews, and history of Joliet and the Elgin Joliet and Eastern Railway. Sunday, October 30, 2011. Room Construction - Part 2. Wednesday, October 19, 2011. Union Station Project - Part 4. I expect to make some significant progress on this project as well as the train room itself in the next month. Stay tuned! Subscribe to: Posts (Atom). Layout as of 02/05/13.
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Zett's O Scale Train Layout: Layout Construction - Track Planning
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Welcome to Zett's O scale 3 rail EJ&E layout page. This page will be updated with layout construction techniques, photographs, product reviews, and history of Joliet and the Elgin Joliet and Eastern Railway. Thursday, May 3, 2012. Layout Construction - Track Planning. I finished almost all of the elevated line from the Union Station all the way to the west bank of the DesPlaines river. This was a nightmare trying to finish this by myself and trying to keep it as level as possible. Here is a view from the...
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One person's pursuit of railroad history…. Please feel free to leave me a note at the bottom with additional railroad archives or links that don’t work. Click letter below for a shortcut. Arkansas and Missouri Railroad. Baltimore and Ohio Railroad Historical Society. Boston and Maine Railroad Historical Society Archives Patrick J. Mogan Cultural Center, Lowell, MA. Boston and New York Airline Railroad University of Connecticut Thomas J. Dodd Research Center. Milwaukee Road Historical Association. Old Col...
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Zett's O Scale Train Layout: The Joliet Track Elevation Project - Rock Island Line
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Welcome to Zett's O scale 3 rail EJ&E layout page. This page will be updated with layout construction techniques, photographs, product reviews, and history of Joliet and the Elgin Joliet and Eastern Railway. Monday, June 25, 2012. The Joliet Track Elevation Project - Rock Island Line. Traveling further west, this is the old Joliet Rock Island station that was used prior to the construction of the Union Station. This picture is taken looking west. The construction of the track elevation brings the landsca...